Lake Toba Tourism

Lake Toba is a volcanic lake with a length of 100 kilometers and 30 kilometers wide, located in North Sumatra Province , Indonesia .

This lake is the largest lake in Indonesia and Southeast Asia . In the middle of this lake there is a volcanic island called Samosir Island .
Lake Toba has long become an important tourist destination in North Sumatra, Bukit Lawang , Berastagi and Nias , attract domestic and foreign tourists .
It is estimated that Lake Toba explosion occurred at about 73000-75000 years ago and an eruption Supervolcano ( super volcano ) the most recent. Bill Rose and Craig Chesner from Michigan Technological University estimate that volcanic materials spewed out of the mountain as much as 2800 km ³ , with 800 km ³ of rock Ignimbrite and 2,000 km ³ of volcanic ash which is expected in the wind to the west for 2 weeks . Volcanic dust in the wind has spread to half the earth , from China to South Africa . Explosion occurred during 1 week and throw the dust up to 10 km above sea level .
This incident caused mass death and the extinction of some species also followed . According to some DNA evidence , this eruption also reduced the number of people to about 60 % of the total human population of the earth at that time , which is about 60 million people . The eruption also caused the ice age , although experts still debate it .

After the eruption , the caldera formed which is then filled with water and became what is now known as Lake Toba . Pressure upward by magma that has not come out cause the emergence of Samosir Island .
International multidisciplinary team of researchers , led by Dr . Michael Petraglia , revealed in a press conference in Oxford , the United States has found a new archaeological site that is quite spectacular by geologists in southern and northern India . On the site it was revealed how people survive , before and after volcanic eruptions ( Supervolcano ) Toba 74,000 years ago , and evidence of life under Mount Toba ash heap . Though the source of the eruption within 3,000 miles , from the distribution of ashes .

For seven years , experts from the University of oxford researching ecosystem project in India , to search for evidence of life and equipment life they left behind in a barren desert . Area with thousands of hectares of this was only the savanna ( grasslands ) . While animal bones scattered . The team concluded , the large areas covered with dust turns of ancient volcanic eruption.

The spread of volcanic dust was very spacious , is found almost all over the world . Derived from an ancient eruption Supervolcano , namely Mount Toba . Allegations leading to Mount Toba , because it found evidence of volcanic ash forms of the same molecule in 2100 . Since the caldera crater is now a lake Toba in Indonesia , 3,000 miles , from the source of the eruption . Even that is quite surprising , it turns out the spread of dust to be recorded up to the North Pole . This is reminiscent of the experts , how powerful the Toba super volcano eruption at the time.